Classic Quotes

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than ...

Dite all’Angelo che veglierà sulla vostra vita, Morrel, di pregare qualche volta per un uomo che, si...

My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our ca...

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have ma...

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other th...

The blood is the life!

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced dur...

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You c...

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.

Second: them poor things well out o' this, and never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher's f...

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do...

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them...

-But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to...

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy

Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the m...

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she mus...

As a mistress, death seemed lacking in many essentials. Therefore, I decided not to die.

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, lea...

Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private r...

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I cou...

I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain...

Of course there must be lots of magic in the world but people don't know what it is like or how to m...

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinar...

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure…For already have I s...

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most dif...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi...

Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We...

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has ...

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke...

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest ...

There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because ...

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that on...

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tract...

'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant t...

…It was embarrassing now to recall with what little regret he had let slip his pleasures and preoccu...

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future i...

he's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you d...

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.